Trump’s Budget Is a Blueprint for Destruction https://t.co/7oPVmlZXMA

Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call / Newscom Trump’s Budget Is a Blueprint for Destruction By Rhea Suh It may sound like green eyeshades stuff, but the massive budget proposal the White House sends up to Congress each February is a kind of road map to our future. It's the president's plan for spending taxpayer dollars to advance his priorities and goals. President Trump's proposal landed with a thud Monday on Capitol Hill, where it should be dead on arrival. It calls for a record $4.4 trillion in spending for the fiscal year that begins in October. It would spike the federal budget deficit, adding $7.1 trillion to the national debt in the coming decade. And it would eviscerate environmental and health protections, stifle clean energy research, raid our public waters and lands, and abandon our children to the growing dangers of climate change . That's the road map to a future none o...